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> I will admit also that about 92% of emulation, is so people can play games they did not pay for. Where are you getting this figure? I've never really underst

> I will admit also that about 92% of emulation, is so people can play games they did not pay for. Where are you getting this figure? I've never really understood the close tie between emulation and piracy. With the exception of the new switch emulators, most emulators are emulating gaming experiences that existed decade(s) ago. I don't know a single person who would download a gamecube emulator to pirate a game they've never played before, people use emulators to re-experience the games they played(and owned) a long time ago.

zerocrates 3y ago
Plenty of people play games through emulation that they didn't play when they were new. I certainly have done so. Whether that's something you've seen played by someone else, a famous classic you missed out on, or something you've played the later entries of and want to go back to. The appeal of, for example, Nintendo's paid-for emulation services goes well beyond just stuff you personally played before, and the same applies to downloading roms. Of course, even taking the nostalgia market alone, I don't know that having owned a game once creates a permanent right to play it free going forward, even in just a moral sense. How many of those people who had previously "experienced" a game sold their copies, or never owned one in the first place?
- _piif 3y ago
  > Of course, even taking the nostalgia market alone, I don't know that having owned a game once creates a permanent right to play it free going forward, even in just a moral sense. How many of those people who had previously "experienced" a game sold their copies, or never owned one in the first place? If a game can not be purchased from the developer anymore I have absolutely no moral objection to pirating it. Why would I go out and buy a second hand copy - in some case for extravagant prices - when the developer sees exactly 0% of that money?

zerocrates 3y ago

Plenty of people play games through emulation that they didn't play when they were new. I certainly have done so. Whether that's something you've seen played by someone else, a famous classic you missed out on, or something you've played the later entries of and want to go back to. The appeal of, for example, Nintendo's paid-for emulation services goes well beyond just stuff you personally played before, and the same applies to downloading roms. Of course, even taking the nostalgia market alone, I don't know that having owned a game once creates a permanent right to play it free going forward, even in just a moral sense. How many of those people who had previously "experienced" a game sold their copies, or never owned one in the first place?

_piif 3y ago
> Of course, even taking the nostalgia market alone, I don't know that having owned a game once creates a permanent right to play it free going forward, even in just a moral sense. How many of those people who had previously "experienced" a game sold their copies, or never owned one in the first place? If a game can not be purchased from the developer anymore I have absolutely no moral objection to pirating it. Why would I go out and buy a second hand copy - in some case for extravagant prices - when the developer sees exactly 0% of that money?